What's Going On

....why am I writing love poems

What’s Going On?

 

 

At the break of dawn…. WTF

the world is burning,

fascism is on the rise,

and I am writing silly,

nonsensical,

love poems…. WTF

 

I.C.E. thugs roam the streets with

a vengeance, kidnapping anyone

who isn’t White or,

has a Spanish sounding name.

They invade schools, playgrounds,

factories, even

fields where our crops are grown,

department and hardware stores,

spreading terror, fear, and lies.

 

WTF…. and why do so many

stand by, fail to resist,

do all they can,

even sacrifice for the greater good, to

stop this juggernaut

before it’s too late?

 

And why am I

still writing silly,

nonsensical,

love poems?

 

WTF!

 

Aztec Warrior / redzone 8.12.2025

Author's Note

....thanks for reading. Note: this song is from 'back in the day', but holds true today. It is also a tip of the hat to Jacob's poem "Vietnam". Change the names, the system is still the same.

Reviews

[redzone]

Yes, the times are different. But we never stopped being in the streets, making it impossible because of our resistance for this system to rule. We were part of ending the war in Vietnam and in driving out a president!! Sustained, nonviolent protest of millions of decent people today can drive out a Trump MAGA fascist regime...NOW

[Ms claws]

Darling, it's a little late in the game, don't you agree? Why not mount your stage as Jeff Daniels is doing trying to clear a path for a democratic president the next election? After all, that's the name of the game, N'est-ce pas?

[Andrew Golding]

Your fire is admirable, the outrage warranted, perplexity justified--How can we? How can this? What the actual F? Being politically awake is good, however, it doesn't and shouldn't preclude the necessary expression of other facets of human existence. Even as a fan of non-dualism, I struggle with being tugged into binary thinking. Anger has its place. It leads to action. But the process of change should not be at the cost of our humanity. Rage against the machine, and keep spreading awareness, but don't stop writing silly love songs, because at the end of the day, that's the world we want to live in.

[h d e rushin]

"What is it then between us"? Whitman asked while intimating he already knew the answer. Because love poems are like the abortion debate, the recitations alone mean that you've already taken a side. The bigger implications like fear and lies, those non-metaphoric bridges where our collective outrage rams itself into the abutment of our indifference, are simply 'non poetic'. The best poems are trying to articulate that metaphoric bridge. And the basis of every poem ever written is love. I feel your outrage/ dana